T20 World Cup on mind, Pakistan and West Indies swapped a Test for two T20Is
Cricket | May 15, 2021 23:15 ISTThe month-long Pakistan tour from, July 21 to August 24, will comprise five T20Is and two Tests.
The month-long Pakistan tour from, July 21 to August 24, will comprise five T20Is and two Tests.
The IPL 2021 just about provided enough - having reached the half-wark mark in the league stage with 29 completed games - to learn how India's T20 World Cup hopefuls fared in the competitions.
While a final decision will be taken in a month's time but it is understood that even the Indian cricket board is jittery about holding the 16-team tournament in October-November after the ongoing IPL had to be suspended because of multiple COVID-19 cases inside the bio-bubble.
The emergence of positive cases in half of the IPL teams has put question marks over the Indian cricket board's ability to put up a safe bio-secure environment.
De Villiers, 37, said he is going to communicate with South Africa head coach Mark Boucher towards the end of the IPL.
The fast bowling great said that winning the One-Day and T20 series in South Africa was a big achievement for the team.
England have already lost the Test and T20Is series and the Eoin Morgan-led team, who are the reigning world champions in the ODIs, would be desperate to stamp their authority in the format and sign off with some pride.
The T20 World Cup is scheduled to be played in India in October and November this year.
BCCI is in talks with the respective cricket boards for back-to-back bilateral series before the T20 World Cup in India, reports Times of India.
The Asia A Qualifier, which is two steps away from the 2022 T20 World Cup set to be played in Australia, was due to be hosted between April 3 and 9.
BCCI is in talks with the respective cricket boards for back-to-back bilateral series before the T20 World Cup in India, reports Times of India.
Since 2018, 31 T20I matches have been played in India of 12 have been won by teams batting first and 17 by the chasing team.
After a limited international cricket action last year, Team India brace for an action-filled 2021.
He also made it clear that the team management had roles for senior players Wahab Riaz, Muhammad Hafeez, Sarfaraz Ahmed and Shoaib Malik in their plans for the World Cup and they would not be discarded.
Dhoni, the only captain to have won all the ICC trophies, retired from international cricket on Saturday, more than a year after he last played for India -- the lost World Cup semifinal against New Zealand.
Dhoni quit international cricket on Saturday, thus drawing curtains on an illustrious, trophy-laden career.
While there is still one year to go before the mega event which was set to be held in Australia this year but got postponed due to rising cases of COVID-19 and inability of the host country to manage 16 teams.
The ICC had last week postponed this year's T20 World due to the COVID-19 pandemic and handed Australia the rights to host the 2022 edition.
The 2021 World Cup will be held in India between October and November with the final on November 14. Meanwhile, Australia, who were originally slated to hold the tournament in 2020, will now be the host for the 2022 edition between October and November with the final on November 13.
India’s first clash of the tournament will be on Saturday 24 October against South Africa at the state-of-the-art Perth Stadium.
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